Netanyahu Promotes Military Hardliner
Ahead of Peace Summit in Washington

An Interactive Journal News Roundup

Updated Oct. 9, 1998 9:49 a.m. ET

On the verge of a Mideast peace summit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday named military hard-liner Ariel Sharon as Israel's new foreign minister.

Mr. Sharon, an ex-general in the Israeli army and a recognized war hero, was removed from office as defense minister in 1983 by an Israeli tribunal looking into the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He was found indirectly responsible for a massacre of Lebanese civilians by...